Lab bench disinfectants

Bernie MacLennan wrote:
>> What are most people using for routine disinfection practices in
> undergraduate microbiology labs.
>> Bernie MacLennan
Bernie
A lot of people use alcohol (often 70% v/v) but is not much chop against
any of the hardier microorganisms and won't even look at spore formers.
For virus disinfection a product called Virkon works well and they
provide a fair bit of validation data with it. For general and bacterial
including spores there is a product called Bacti-Pal. It is very
aggressive (nitric acid is one of its components) but we validated it to
bump off spores so it certainly does the job.
Mike